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How Macron Keeps Winning

President Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in France continued this weekend, as he appears to have added a huge parliamentary majority to his cause. The result of the first round of elections to the National Assembly is the clearest indication yet of Macron's success in recasting French politics.

PARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majority to his cause, if the results from the first round of the French parliamentary election hold. Such an outcome appears to be very likely.

Eliminating the old “right-left” divide in French politics by uniting “reformists” of the left, the right, and the center, was the challenge that Macron set for himself when he created his En Marche! movement in April 2016 as part of his bid for the French presidency. The result of the first round of elections to the National Assembly is the clearest indication yet of how successful Macron has been in recasting French politics.

Support for France’s two main traditional parties, Les Républicains on the right (which won 21.6% of votes cast in the first round) and the Socialist Party (down to a mere 9.5%), has fallen to levels unseen in the history of the French Fifth Republic. And backing for the far-right National Front, whose leader, Marine Le Pen, lost to Macron in the presidential election, fell to a mere 13.2% in the first round.

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Yes, he does. Winning and winning.
But then, the global stock markets keep climbing and climbing - to valuations beyond 2008, beyond 1929, beyond even 2000 - all on the hopes of a future priced for perfection. But sooner or later, perhaps tomorrow, perhap in two years, who knows, someone somewhere is going to say: hang on, that perfect future we were banking on, well it ain't gonna be delivered and it's time to take my bets off the table - and in the ensuing dive for the doors, the exits are gonna look awfully small.

Semtiment waves come in two forms, slow-burn, building over years and taking years to tear down, or lighting-strikes, much rarer but here opinion turns on a dime.
Blair rode the sentiment wave after Diana's death - he was lionised for that, but a decade later he was reviled, and still is. May is currently being fried by a lighting-strike, semtiment shifted in under six weeks - I have never seen anythng like it in four decades of observing UK politics. Macron is riding a sentiment wave, pricing to perfection the future he is meant to deliver for France and the EU.
What do you think happens next?

Run-off systems empower the moderate. The US has a similar system in California with its open primaries. It works. That system of open primaries should be copied more widely throughout the United States.

Macron is probably the least popular leader in modern times, with the approval of less than 17 % of the total French electorate after excluding the support of the other parties. He was always In Third place in the runoff to the presidential elections. An unpopular leader cannot lead. The establishment is doomed and unless the voices of the people in Europe are heard and true democracy at the ballot box and in parliaments are restored, Bastille II here I come!

What a mess of metaphors.
If anything the voters have rushed to the centre thus stabilising the vessel.
This compares to the Anglosphere which has gone from the Right to the Far-Right to the Lunar-Extreme-Right, and its ship is about to go down.

Only a small reference to the most important fact of these elections: more than one out of two French voters didn't vote (lowest turnout in modern history for parliamentary elections)
These results should therefore not be interpreted as a backing from French people and Macron will still have to be cautious in his way to implement his reforms if he wants to avoid demonstrations like in 1995.
The fact that the person (Bayrou) in charge of the new law on transparency is now caught in some issues with assistant from the European Parliament (just like the FN...) is a further sign that we should be careful before claiming that Macron will significantly change France and its working.